how to change roots shell

Izwan Mohd zuan at mylinux.net.my
Thu May 18 09:37:16 PDT 2006


Hope you have "sudo" you can do "sudo -u root bash" if don't nothing 
came cross my mine yet how to deal with it :-\

unixforums 1 wrote:

> tried it and i get the following error:
>
> su: change: No such file or directory
>
> What happened originally is I accidently changed the shell to "change" 
> and now i get the following error when I su.
>
> su: change: No such file or directory
>
> This is a remote system so if at all possable i need to do it through ssh.
>
> Thanks
>
> */Izwan Mohd <zuan at mylinux.net.my>/* wrote:
>
>     unixforums 1 wrote:
>
>     >Hi,
>     > I did a completely newbie move and changed the root�s shell to
>     something that doesn�t work. So, needless to say now I can�t
>     su to root or even login as root. Is there a way I can fix this
>     without rebuilding the server?
>     >
>     > Thanks for any help you can provide.
>     >
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>     su root -c chsh root
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